It’s A Different World

The internet and email - Outlook, search engines - Google, social sites – Facebook & MySpace, entertainment downloading – iTunes, shopping sites – so much that is part of us today BUT was not almost yesterday! It’s really remarkable the new “stuff” that has spring up from nothing to become a household – regular part of our lives. Think about it!
I don’t know about you but I now order books, clothes, computers online, make travel arrangements myself – even select seats and print boarding passes, answer almost any question I have, talk directly too our customers, do my banking, check the value of my investments, find out the weather for the weekend and so much more.

The New screen is infinitely more powerful than the TV screen. It puts us in control of what we do when we want to do it where we want to do it!

This “power to control our lives” just happened – the internet – for the most part being FREE – enable it to happen!

However, to be fair, the key is making sure that everyone has the ability to access the internet. This “tool – invention – miracle” is so powerful that all of us that have the privilege to be able to have it MUST do what everything we can to help those people that don’t have it to have it!

Maybe it’s really the next level of communication. Imagine how handicapped you would be if you could not hear or talk! That’s the basic way we communicate. If you could talk or hear, you would clearly be so far left behind! Now there’s an additional way the internet!

Last Xmas, I took advantage of Nicolas Negroponte’s special two for one offer of his computers – one was donated and other came to me. This was the first tiny step to finding out how we do something to make a difference in enabling children and adults all over the world to have this “miracle” tool!

This leads to the conclusion that every major computer company MUST develop an inexpensive computer that can be offered/given to those that can’t afford it!

Only when this happens and everybody is connected – can we really begin to make changes in the world. Remember, we are in control – we really are – the internet has given us all the ability to talk to each other, to simply and complicate our lives but most importantly to be more
in charge of what we do when we do it and how we want to do it!

So some of the major “problems of the world” are really solved by everyone having access to the internet. It is the leveling tool – it gives everyone the ability and the power to maker a difference in the world.

Clearly what is happening is everyone will have a voice in what is happening in the world – if they are online! Imagine asking a question and having the input of all of your customers. Imagine sharing the results with your customers!

We’re moving from the power of the government/big business to the power of the individual! Hurray!